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Shouleh Nikzad

Shouleh Nikzad

Iranian-American electronic engineer

Shouleh Nikzad is an Iranian-American electronic engineer and research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She leads the Advanced Detector Arrays, Systems, and Nanoscience Group. Her research considers ultraviolet and low-energy particle detectors, nanostructure devices and novel spectrometers. Nikzad is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the National Academy of Inventors and SPIE.

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Early life and education

As an undergraduate, Nikzad majored in electronic engineering at the University of Southern California.[1] She moved to California Institute of Technology for graduate studies, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1983.[2] Nikzad investigated compound materials (including zinc sulfide and cadmium sulfide) that had been produced through ion beam sputtering using laser spectroscopy.[3]

Research and career

Nikzad was appointed an electro-optics engineer at Pacific Infrared.[4] She moved to the Argonne National Laboratory as a graduate fellow in 1998, before joining California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow in 1990. After two years at Caltech, Nikzad moved to Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where she focused on imaging and detector systems.[5] At the JPL, Nikzad designed curved imaging systems, which, inspired by the human eye, can support high quality imaging in large telescopes.[5]

As of 2019, Nikzad is a senior research scientist and principal engineer at JPL where she leads the Advanced Detector Arrays, Systems, and Nanoscience Group.[6]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

  • Shouleh Nikzad; Michael E Hoenk; Frank Greer; et al. (1 January 2012). "Delta-doped electron-multiplied CCD with absolute quantum efficiency over 50% in the near to far ultraviolet range for single photon counting applications". Applied Optics. 51 (3): 365–369. arXiv:1102.2244. doi:10.1364/AO.51.000365. ISSN 1559-128X. PMID 22270664. Wikidata Q37978169.
  • John Hennessy; April D Jewell; Michael E Hoenk; Shouleh Nikzad (1 April 2015). "Metal-dielectric filters for solar-blind silicon ultraviolet detectors". Applied Optics. 54 (11): 3507–3512. doi:10.1364/AO.54.003507. ISSN 1559-128X. PMID 25967344. Wikidata Q87295469.
  • Gillian Kyne; Erika T. Hamden; Nicole Lingner; Patrick Morrissey; Shouleh Nikzad; D. Christopher Martin (5 August 2016), The faint intergalactic-medium red-shifted emission balloon: future UV observations with EMCCDs, doi:10.1117/12.2232879, Wikidata Q58470022

References

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    Jahandad, Memarian (2019-10-21). "Shouleh Nikzad: Sharpening Humanity's Eyes in Space Exploration and Medical Science". Retrieved 2021-03-04.
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    "Shouleh Nikzad | The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy". pma.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
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    Nikzad, Shouleh (1990). A study of ion beam sputtering of compound materials with laser spectroscopy (Thesis). OCLC 1003270876.
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    "Dr. Shouleh Nikzad | Science and Technology". scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
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    Memarian, Jahandad (2019-11-10). "Shouleh Nikzad: Sharpening Humanity's Eyes in Space Exploration and Medical Science". Medium. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
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    "The Lew Allen Award for Excellence Recipients | Science and Technology". scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
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    "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
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    "Shouleh Nikzad | Women in Optics | SPIE". spie.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
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    "Distinguished Lecturer Program - IEEE Photonics Society". www.photonicssociety.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
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    "Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award - SPIE". spie.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
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    "Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation". American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
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